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Morning View – One East River

The 50-story One East River on E.72nd Street is one of the city’s oddball flock of “super-luxury” rentals, built for folks that don’t mind dropping around $40k-$80K a year to rent an apartment. It’s a soul-free glass box, more like an office building than a home, but I do rather like the funky slatted window vents that actually open. On …

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AFA Attacks ENDA

The American Family Association says… Several corporations are now supporting the homosexual agenda. These companies have been convinced by homosexual activists and the mainstream media that in order to be “fair and tolerant,” companies must make special rules for homosexuals and provide company money and resources to help promote their lifestyle. Many companies, at the urging of these groups, have …

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ENDA Introduced To House

ABOVE: Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) speaks about ENDA, which he and Reps. Deb Price (R-OH) , Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), and Chris Shays (R-CT) introduced to the U.S. House of Representatives. More photos are here. (via – Human Rights Campaign.) Rep. Baldwin: “Twenty-five years ago, my own state of Wisconsin was the first in the nation to add sexual orientation to …

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HomoQuotable – Jackie Beat

“Ann Coulter is a horrible witch — you know that some queen is bleaching and straightening that hair. And who designs her little black dresses and shoes? Trust me, it’s gay men! I would love to see Ann Coulter in a gay-free zone — she would have coarse mousy brown hair, poorly applied drugstore makeup and walk around in a …

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East Harlem Run-On

(Taking a deep breath):I dusted the bike off for the first time this year tonight and had a long ride along the East River, starting at the bridge over the expressway that runs under the Hospital For Ominous Surgery, rolling by the Blackwell Island Lighthouse (built in 1872 so boats didn’t run into the NYC Insane Asylum), continuing past our …

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Broadway Bullet Points

As of yesterday, Spamalot has run longer than Camelot. The Producers closed yesterday after six years and a $300+ million gross. John Waters’ Cry-Baby is in workshop, NYC premiere unknown. New York state may deregulate ticket scalping. Current law expires in June. Semi-flop The Pirate Queen may be evicted for Young Frankenstein. Frost/Nixon, starring Frank Langella, opens tonight. Mary Poppins …

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HomoQuotable – Jim McGreevey

“Although it is clear that the Defendant (Dina Matos McGreevey) knew of my sexual orientation before our marriage, she chose to either ignore it or block it out of her mind, even when questioned by her friends.” – Former NJ governor Jim McGreevey, claiming his wife always knew he was a gay American, in divorce papers filed yesterday. McGreevey’s “amicable” …

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Sticky News For Astroglide

Whoopsie. Wired is reporting that lube maker Astroglide has accidently exposed a list of over 250,000 customers. Google searches on their customer’s names now reveal their addresses and their preferred lube. Google is working on removing the info from their caches and many of the links are now dead, but apparently the information has been out there for years. There …

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Gay Church’s Billboards Defaced

Well, that didn’t take long. God’s gentle loving people in Indianapolis have already defaced some of Jesus MCC’s startling pro-gay scripture billboards, spray painting “Lie, Lie, Lie” on one of them. Get the story from Indiana LGBT site, Bilerico, who notes that the vandals had to use tall extension ladders to reach the billboards.

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Morning View – Metronome

Hovering on the facade of Union Square’s Virgin Megastore/ Circuit City location is not a digital commentary on overpopulation, or the national debt, but the Metronome, built in 1998 as one of the largest private commissions of public art in the history of the city. Created by Kristin Jones and Andrew Ginzel at the bequest of the building’s owner, the …

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Swag Tuesday

Courtesy of Universal Music Enterprises, this week’s Swag Tuesday booty is a collection of six great CDs from their new Number Ones series: Marvin Gaye , Diana Ross & The Supremes, The Tempations, Dance #1’s, ’80s Soul , and ’90s Soul. These are UME’s “eco-friendly” packages and you can download complete liner notes direct from UME’s site. As before, this …

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Protesting Is Sexy!

A reader sent me this pic of a very sexy concerned citizen keeping track of U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales claiming “I don’t recall” over and over again during his Senate testimony. YouTube has the embarrassing video. Employing your civic right to comment on our government’s abuses is sexy. Muscular arms are sexy. Beards are sexy. And Alberto Gonzales is …

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ENDA To Be Re-Introduced Tomorrow

This just in… WASHINGTON — On Tuesday, April 24, at 1:00 p.m., Reps. Barney Frank, D-Mass.; Deborah Pryce, R-Ohio; Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis.; and Chris Shays, R-Conn., will introduce the bipartisan Employment Non-Discrimination Act in the U.S. House of Representatives. The bill addresses discrimination in the workplace by making it illegal to fire, refuse to hire or refuse to promote an …

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Christians Disrupt Daisey

Friday night in Cambridge, monologist/writer Mike Daisey had his show at the American Reperatory Theatre disrupted when 87 members of a Christian group decided to leave the theatre in the middle of the show, with one man pouring water on Daisey’s notes as the group filed past the stage. It seems to be unknown why the Christian group decided to …

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Spitzer To Post Gay Marriage Bill

Governor Eliot Spitzer has announced his plan to introduce a bill to legalize gay marriage in New York. The bill is not expected to pass. Same-sex marriage legislation has never made it to a floor vote in the New York Assembly or Senate. Still, marriage equality activists are heralding Spitzer’s plan, saying his move will lend “strategic and symbolic weight” …

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HIV Blocking Peptide Found

German researchers have identified a peptide that blocks HIV and have synthesized a variant that is 100 times more potent than the natural peptide. The synthetic version has been tested safely on animals and human trials are set to begin later this year. This peptide could obviate existing HIV drugs as it appears to work equally well on all strains …

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Morning View – Christopher Street

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Saturday. In The Park.

Yesterday’s glorious sunshine allowed us to renew our favorite warm weather tradition, lazy Saturday afternoons spent sprawled above Central Park’s roller disco. The DJ starts up around 2PM, beaming old school disco and R&B classics to a wireless speaker system, while a crazy group of show-offs and eccentrics perform tricks and roller-boogie around. We spotted most of our favorites yesterday: …

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Cyndi Lauper Shouts Out To JMG

Here are the deets on the tour: Cyndi Lauper, Erasure, Debbie Harry, The Dresden Dolls, The Gossip and The Misshapes with host Margaret Cho take the celebration of the first annual True Colors Tour to support the Human Rights Campaign. The 15 city nationwide tour, presented by Logo, kicks off Gay and Lesbian Pride Month on June 8th at Las …

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Family Pride Wins Grant

Kevin Bacon’s charity website, Six Degrees, has named Family Pride as one of its six charities to win a matching grant, after the gay families group raised over $30,000 from 1138 donors. Bacon had pledged $10,000 to each of the top six groups with the most unique donors. Family Pride placed third, winning the additional money and a mention from …

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